Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 17, 1915, Page 3

Nebraska COUNTY BOARDS | GO TO ALLIANCE| State Convention Decides to Accept| Invitation of Western City for Next Year. SAFETY FIRST MUCH TALKED OF COLUMBUS, Neb., Dec. 16.—(Special Telogram.)—Alllance was chosen by the state convention of county commissioners and supervisors for the next meeting place. Alllance received 8§ and Hastings, 1L Thirty telegrams from officers and business men of Alllance were recelved and read by the secretary sol'citing the members to vote for Alliance for holding the fiext annual convention. | By an unanimous vote the present of ficers were all re-elected: P. J. Kennedy, president, York; L. R. Barlow, vice presi- dent, Lodgepole; C. E. Hill, “secretary, Hastings, and Mike Cavey, St. Bdward. In the afternoon the subject of county roads was again taken up and discussed, by James A. White, Messrs, Pitts of Cass county, Purdy of Madison county and Clarke of Nemaha county. The opinion of the speakers was that the costs of establishing new roads costs about $30 per mile for grading and to keep same in good repair would cost $15 per mile. It was suggested that the county roads should be under supervision the supervisors as it Is now under missioner system, County Attorney Otto F. Walter of Platte county was called upon for a few remarks and he took for his subject safety, first of records by procuring good vaults, by placing signals on bridges while repairing same, by complying with legislation placing white posts on each &ide of the culverts on the public high- way, thus avoiding expenses and costs to the county. votes, Omaha, 16, of the com- THIS FRENCH HEROINE IS A NEW JOAN OF ARC | 4 | { | Mile. Emilliene Moreau, heroine of the recapture of 1003, has been awarded a | military medal by France, for acts of bravery which the French people say | are paralleled only by the history of | Joan of Are. During the fighting at-| tendant upon the recapture of Loos by the allles, Mlle. Moreau killed two Ger- mans with a pistol and later slew three more with a hand grenade which she bor- {rowed frow. a French sergeant. The Ger- mans were firing on her home, which she had converted into a first-aid hospital | for the soldiers of the allles, FAKE ASPIRIN IS DISCOVERED Food Commission_;- Harman Finds Where Large Quantity Has Been Sold. IN PLACE OF GERMAN DRUG A resolution extending thanks to Colum- bus and especlally to the Commercial club for hospitality was read and endorsed by a rising vote. The members™ attended a banquet at the Orpheus hall given by the Commer- c'al club. The banquet was served by the women of the Methodist Episcopal church The music on this occasion was rendered by the Columbus new symphony or- chestra consisting of eighteen members and under the direction of Prof. E. B. G. Gruber. Moving pictures were shown at the North Opera house last night giving the Process of manufacturing iron and steel, after which the visiting guests partook of a Dutch lunch at the Elks hall given by the Commercial club of Columbus, Matters Enters Denial 0f Candidacy Rumor (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Dec. 16.—(Special.)—Senator John Mattes of Nebraska City, who vis- ited the state house today, satd he was not seriously considering the rumor that he might be a candidate for the demo- cratic nomination for governor, Mr. Mattes declared the report published in & Lincoln paper that the German-Ameri- can alllance was taking steps to throw its vote against Wilson was all a fabri- cation. ““The state alllance of Nebraska is per- | fectly nompolitical and independent in politics,” sald the senator. incubator for public or political schemes, and has not in any way taken any action as indicated. “Our members are students of economic, social and political questions. They will cast their votes intelligently when the proper time comes, and neither prejudice or revenge will tarnish their actions. The future welfare of the country will over- balance any temporary disappointment. TWO NEBRASKANS GET MONEY FROM ESTATF, SYRACUSE, N. Y., Dec. 16.—(Special Telegram.)—Harry Dixon of North Platte, Neb., and Nellle Dean Wilson of Lincoln, Neb., will receive their share of the $,000,000 estate of Colonel Wardwell G Robinson as soon as the court approves settlement terms between executors and Mrs. Vera Robinson Coyne of St. Louls, who, claiming to be his daughter, started sult to secure the entire estate and tied up the distribution by injunction. Robinson died supposedly a bachelor, Mrs. Coyne appeared at the funeral, say- ing he married Louise Simmons, her | mother, and produced a 25-year-old news- paper clipping to prove the contention. Her lawyer, Spencer Brownell, made a nation-wide trip and secured the consent of most .of the heirs to settle 2% per cent upon her, and today asked the court's permission to discontinue the action. The Nebraska heirs’ ghare is not specifically known untfl expenses are deducted, but it will be several thousand dollars. BEATRICE MAN ACCUSED OF STEALING JEWELS AND CASH BEATRICE, Neb,, Dec. 16.—(Special.)-+ 1. R. Smith of this city was arrested Wednesday evening and lodged in the city jail on the charge of stealing jewelry valued at about $35 from a local jewelry store. Some of the stolen property was found in his possession and he attempted to throw it away when Officer Hayden placed him under arrest. He s also charged with stealing $15 from the cash register at Black's mill, where he has been employed and from which place he ~vas discharged Tuesd: WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH IN'SOD HOUSE NEAR M'COOK M'COOK, Neb., Dec. 16.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Mrs. R. D, Rogers, who lived on a farm about fifteen miles northwest of McCook, i Hitcheock county, was burned to death in her sod farm house yesterday afternoon. No other person was on the place at the time. Origin of the fire is unknown. The body was found under earth and debris of the caved-in roof of the sod house, lying across the bed. Burlal occurred in Hayes sounty this afternoon. —— Her So bject 1o Croup. “My son Edwin 1s subject to croup,” writes Mrs, E. O. Irwin, New Kensing- ton, Pa, “I put in many sleepless hours gt night before I learned of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Mothers need not fear this disease if they keep a bottle of | Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy in th house and use it as directed. 1t always | “It s not an | (From a Staft Correspondent.) | rINCoL Dec. 16.—(Special)—Work- | ing with government officlals, State Food | Commissioner' Harman and Chief Tn- | spector Kembel have been able to discover | the sale of so-called aspirin, a tablet used {largely by phsiclans and druggists for | the cure of headaches. | Aspirin is made in Germany, but a drug | called actylo-salieyic acid made in this | | country is sald to be equally as good. | However, the use of the latter remedy has never come Into general use because | aspirin has ben so largely advertised that | everybody has insisted on that instead of the American product. So great has | ‘been the demand for aspirin that it ap- pears some firm in the east has been | { manufacturing a counterfeit which has been sold in large quantities to drugglsts | |as the real article, | The Medlin Brokerage company of |Omaha of which J. 'W. Medlin is the | proprietor, appears to have had the handling of the alleged aspirin in this state and has been the distributor to other druggists. Before Justice Britt of Omaha he pleaded gulilty to the charge of keeping drugs not stamped with the amount of contents and ‘was fined $40 |and costs. ! { In justice to Mr, Medlin, Food Commis- | sloner Harman says he was ignorant of | | the nature of the drug and supposed he was handling the real article and has promptly turned over to the authorities all of the counterfeit article in his posses- slon worth about $500, The alleged aspirin contains one-half grain of acetainlid, which is detrimental to heart action and might be excedingly | dangerous for those with weak hearts |to take. The Omaha concern has dls- | Posed of over 300,000 of these tablets in | the=tate and the government inspectors |are 4 to know just where to go to {locate the drugglsts which have handled it. One Omaha druggist was found with 000 tablets In his possession and these were selzed. Lincoln druggists are | known to have the counterfelt aspirin in | their possession and will be called upon to face a tribunal of justice, Real aspirin sells for $8.80 per 1,00 tablets, while the counterfeit brings about |$6.50. The counterfeit can be readily distinguished from the real because it | will dissolve in cold water, while the real | aspirin is not soluble. It will break in | cold water into small parts and then | { settle in the bottom, but the counterfeit | disgolves entirely in a glass of cold water. UNITED CHARITIES IS ORGANIZED ‘AT COLUMBUS COLUMBUS, Neb, Dec. 16.—(Special.)— The Columbus United Charitifs js the name of the organization that was com- pleted last night. Carl Kramer called the meeting to order and was selected as temporary chairman, while Charles L. Dicky acted as secretary. After different ways had been spoken of and suggested, the following were elected as a board of directors: G, W, Phillips, M. E. Helms, Henry F. J. Hockenberger, Charles L. Dickey and Carl Kramer The board of directors instructed the secretary to ask churches, fraternities and other organizations iInterested in the work of charity to designate one of their members to co-operate with the committee of this assoclation in sec uring members. The following committee on member- ship has been selected: Carl Kramer, Mrs. J. B. Geitzen, Mrs. George H homas, Mirs. Leoppold Jaeggl, Mrs, A bert Plageman, Mrs, Phil Mrs, M. Brugger. HASTINGS SENDS FULL QUOTA INTO THE FRAY (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Dec. 16.—(Specfal.)—Hastings appears o have heen struck with an epl- demic of offic seeking, the secretary of state’s office recelving today a filing made by A. J. Sliger of that city, who wants the nomination for land commis- sioner on the democratic ticket. Just to show that the populist party is still alive, | Mr. Sliger wants the nomination of that party also Two men there would like the nomina- tion on the republican ticket for gov- ernor. Another man wants the demo- cratic nomination for rallway commis- sloner, another is a candidate for the re- publican nomination for congress and an- other man wants some kind of an office not yet specified, ————— Check Your Winter Cough. Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey will stop your cough and strengthen your lungs, | | | | gave my boy relief.” Obtainable every- where.—Advertisement. Get & bottle now. Only Ze. Al druggists, | —Advertisement. THE BEE: ( Nebraska OWNERS SHOULD WORK THE FARMS Prof. Pugsley of Lincoln Tells Ne- braska State Grange Defect in Present System. DECLINE FOLLOWS TENANTRY GRAND ISLAND, Neb clal Telegram.)~The se y of the range session was largely taken up with recelving and considering reports. One feature of the day was the address of Prof. C. W. Pugsley of the University of Nebraska, who emphasized the need of a departure from the tendency to- ward tenant farming. Forty per cent of Nebraska farms were now conducted by tenants and the tendency in this di- rection is to a still greater per cent. This means a gradial deterioration of the farm and & decline in productivity Real agricultural prosperity precludes | tenant farming and absolutely requires | & continuity of ownership and interest | not only for an upkeeping of the soll fertility but alse for’ the maintenance | of standard living conditions and farm improvements, There must be a better organization for the purpose of selling farm products. | In Lincoln alone there are over 700 acres of land that could produce food, but such food cannot be profitably marketed on account of the middlemen. A proper distribution system is lacking. Another feéature was the address of | State Superintendent A. O. Thomas, who | dwelt upon the necessity of wvetter edu- cational facilities for the rural districts, both for the purpose of making the farm- ers of the future more competent and of adding to the enjoyment of life. There should be such facllities within reach of every farm as to enable all farm boya and girls to secure the needed educational equipment. Work in exem- plitying the various degrees was done. The legislative committee made its re- port, but the same has not as yet been accepted or discussed. The finance com- mittee shows a very satisfactory condli- | tion and a neat balance on hand. About 150 were present today. Governor Refuses *(spe Norfolk Hotel Man | clerk, watching the operation, IMAHA, FRIDAY, DECEMB NEW HEAD RESIDENT OF THE | SOCIAL SETTLEMENT Beulah Byrd Cashes Bogus Check NORFOLK, Neb,, Dec. 16.—(Special Te egram.)—Sloux City police are searching for a man giving the name A. G, Sim- mons, who passed a check at a Norfolk hotel in the sum of $38.60 to which the signature of the Washington Hat and Shirt company of Sloux City was alleged to have been forged. Two other checks for $46 each were sald to have been cashed by the man, Simmons called at ‘the hotel office for A letter and one was waiting for him in an envelope of the hat firm. From the envelope he drew his check and the hotel promptly cashed it. Nebraska |STATE ONCE BOUGHT WO00D Auditor Smith Uncovers Record | Showing Old-Time System of Heating. TRAINS ON IMPERIAL BRANCEH (F LINCOLN, State Auditor Smith old record kept by the state auditor in the ym a Staff Correspondent.) Dec. 16.—(Special) has unearthed an early days of tho state's history wheh has some Interesting entries in it which shows how things have changed in this state. | One entry under date of 189 shows that the legislature made an appropriation of $L800 for wood to keep the leglslature | warm, All but §7.7 was spent in an ef- fort to warm up the mombers. In 1570 the state spent 8% for a chan delfer and then added $82.05 In repairs The same year the state pald $19 for two cords of wood to warm the office of the adjutant general. » Information comes to the State Rallway commission that the Burlington railroad has proposed to meet the demands of the patrons of its Imperial branch for a daily passenger traln by putting on a passenger service each way three days in the week and a mixed train the other three days. However, it Is sald that the patrons will not be satisfied with this offer, although the road may go ahead and establish that kind of service any way. osnl from Rallroad. To Arrange Race Meets, According to Secretary Mellor of the State Board of Agriculture there will be & meeting of representatives of fair sociations in Sloux City on December 28 for the purpose of making arrangements for the season of 1916 race meets, States represented will be Towa, Nebraska and South Dakota and the fairs affected will | With his friends and belleves the track is | be the state fairs of the three states with the races held at Sloux City her Candidate Likely, comes to Lincoln that J. P.| GiHlllan of Auburn, county treasurer of | Nemaha county, is lkely to enter the | ring for the republican momination for | state treasurer, Mr. Gillllan has been looking the situation over and talking | Ano Word wide enough for another entry. Sink Hoosting Ryan. John 8ink, who gained celebrity because of his famous nine-foot bed sheet law, @O Headquarters for FBealton & 115-17 SO, 16TH ST, Overstuffed price all the way from— $65.00 to il Your Credit Is Good Pictured above is one of a dozen new arrivals ed Davenports just sampled on Beaton & Laier's sales fioors, Up- holsteries are tapestries and velours, cholce new patterns. Thé price of the one pictured is §54.50. was at the state house today and gave out the intelligence that the democratio party will not be without a candidate for governor, as Mayor Charlle Ryan, thrice head of the city of Grand Island, will soon file for the democratic nomina- tion. When asked if the mayor was will- ing to subscribe to the Bryan prohibition plank and thus get the support of the mayor and his wandering brother, Mr. Sink simply sald that Mayor Ryan was a good man for the place and none near sald him nay. P T Use The Boe's “Swappet” column. Practical Gifts. [EDEE Laier Co. PHONE DOUG. 385, Furniture, the Best Gift of All Davenports Variety of Choice New Patterns in superb overstuff. Other styles range in $165.00 at Beaton & Laier's [ Buy Christmas Presents | of Bedford stone, the first bullding other |itiatory work was held in the evening. | chapters were present. To Send Man Out To M911t_ana Court From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Dec. 16—(Special)—Gov- ernor Mohehead today acted the Santa | Claus part to Mr. and Mrs. H. W.| Schroeder-of Seward and their two tiny | children, when he refused to grant a | requisition asked by the wgovernor of | Montana for the return to that state of Mr. Schroeder, charged with grand lar- | ceny under the laws of that state. According to the evidence, the Seward | man had gone up to Montana in search of a homestead and had come in contact with a real estate man who offered him the relinquishment on a tract of land held by a woman for $400. The land suited Schroeder all right and he gave the land agent o check for the amount, stating that he did not have that amount in the bank, but as soon as he got back to Seward he would arrange for its pay- | ment. | However, the agent turned the eheck over to a bank in that state, and, as Schroeder did not have the funds to meet it, he was sought on the charge of grand larceny, which in Montana includes the giving of a check when there is no money on deposit to cover it. | In refusing to grant the requisition, Governor Morehead sald that he had been a banker himself and it seemed to | him it would have been a very easy mat- | ter and the business thing to have done for the bank to have wired or telephoned i Read Ths Without Wasting Your Time By visiting the i 3 Church Fair In the court of THE BEE BUILDING ‘Where' ladies of 24 church have a large and beautiful seleetion of useful, ornamental and fancy arti¢les suit- able for all purposes. The market letter of one of the leading stock and bond brokers of Chicago sa) Now is the opportune time to invest in the younger companies manufacturing light motor cars, and experience the good fortune that the original stockholders in the older companies have done. Greater opportunities exist for the reason that the pioneering in the industry has been done; standards have been established and all educational work accomplished. ‘We have placed on the market the Drummond car, which is a demonstrated suc- cess, and to meet our increased business will require additional capital. With an original capital of $50,000 we are increasing our capi- 0,000 and are offering, subject to prior sale, $100,000 7% cumulative, preferred { v MOTHERS AND SISTERS Always have and always will know how to make and se- lect the best there is in Christmas Gifts—Ilet thém do it for you now—save time, money and disappointment by buying from them, this year as thousands did in past seasons, Satisfaction guaranteed is their slogan. This Incomplete List Shows the VARIETY OF ARTICLES FOR SALE Home Made Cundy Home Cooking, all kinds Comforts Mince Meat Embroidered Towels Pin Cushions ¥ruit Cake Aprons, fancy and plain Underskirts Jelly Corset Covers Dust Stuffed Dates Doll Clothes Stocking Bags es Leather Goods Washable Rugs Doughnuts Fancy Bags Doily Rolls Ples Handkerchiefs Preserves Ohildren's Mufts Dressed Dolls Hand Painted China et e % . o and participating stock at par, which is $100 per share. Let us show you what large dividends have been paid.by other motor car manufac- turers and the excellent opportunity which we have to measure up to what they have ac- complished. Write or call for our catalogue and pros- pectus, Pz 2568-72 Farnam Street, Omaha, Neb. ' EVERY DAY THIS WEEK IS A Bargain Day at the 1915 CHRISTMAS FAIR the Seward bank to see if the check was good. No money had been lost by the agent had expended, and he did not be- lieve that it was rightto send the man | when it was evident he had had no in- tention of committing a fraugs were present in the governor's office and i appeared to be much pleased with um‘ | Telegram.)—H. L. Watson was seriously Injured and Mrs. R. L. Resler was hurt | mobile accident four miles west of town | last evening. A small child of Mrs. Res- | ing Mrs. Resler, who is a nelghbor, home, | and when climbing a hill attempted to | verse by mistake, and the car backed | down the hill, missed a bridge at the creek below, pinning Watson under the machine and knocking Mrs. Resler un- ered soon and walked a mile to her home and | brought help to release Watson, | transaction except a few dollars that the i back among strangers to fight a c.nn‘; | Mrs. Schroeder and the two vhlldrcnl‘ action of the governor. BEAVER CITY, Neb,, Dec. 16.—(Speeial | and unconsclous for a while in an auto- | ler's escaped unhurt. Watson was tak- put on the low gear, but pushed the re- | bottom and turned upside down in the | consclous for a short time. &he recov- ! Improvements atr MMeCook. M'COOK, Neb, Dec. 16.—(Special)— Among the Iimprovements now being made in the business bulldings of Me- | Cook is the new McCook National Bank bullding on Main avenue, adjolning the bank's present quarters, The fine weather | of this fall has given the opportunity of making considerable progress in its erec- | tion. The front of the building will be Perry, Oklahoma, April 29, 1914, Bankers Life Insurance Company, Lincoln, Nebraska. Gentlemen: I am in receipt of your letter of the 27th enclosing {chec:( for §780.29 in payment of my policy maturing on the 21st in- stant. I am very much pleased with the settlement made under this policy and it is quite a contrast to the one made last year by the Equi- {table Life Assurance Society of New York, a copy of which settlement n- 1 T gent you some time ago. b The Equitable policy was for $2,000 and their settlement was over less than yours would have been based on a $2,000 policy. Very truly yours, C. D. JENSEN, TWENTY PAYMENT LIFE POLIOY Matured in the OLD LINE BANKERS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY of Lincoln, Nebraska than the big Federal building, in which that handsome stone has been used in McCook. GENEVA, Yeb, Dee. Yesterday the Eastern Star lodge held & reception, Grand Instructress Mrs, Hamlilton of Lincoln being present. Name. . . . Amount of policy. . . A Total Premiums paid company Superintendent and the condidates | 600 Mrs. Meyers were Visitors from nelghboring SETTLEMENT Total Cash paid Mr, Jensen. . ... $780.20 And 20 Years Insurance for Nothing The Royal Geneva company gave an en- tertalnment in the new City Auditorium under the ausplces of the Geneva band. The Btore of the Town A SUGGESTION— A HOUSE COAT $5.00 TO $25.00 B Ask the man who owns one of our policies. Have you an agency? Home Office: Lincoln, Allob, Have you a policy? S